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The Information Technology sector has over the years developed, tested and implemented new ways and processes to developing IT systems. To name a few and to bring this into perspective, we have the traditional SDLC, the JAD (Joint Application Development) and so on and so forth. Developing these methods and standards takes a long time […]

Getting this baby to work has been a not so enjoyable experience. After what seemed like fighting a losing battle, I stumbled upon the above mentioned post, I read through the post carefully and got stuck on the first bit where I had to reset the username and the password. You see, unlike other people, […]

They say a team is only as strong as its weakest link. I think it should be changed to a system is only as strong as the user. As a simple example, we have many applications to do different things at our disposal. Microsoft Word for word processing, Power Point for those spectacular presentations that […]

In general, open source refers to any program whose source code is made available for use or modification as users or other developers see fit.(it.jhu.edu/glossary/mno.html) This is a less-confusing name for what is also called ‘free software’. It describes the development method used for many pieces of software, including the Linux kernel, where the source […]

Logic: by definition from the web, it means “the principles that guide reasoning within a given field or situation” or in simplest terms a system of reasoning. The principle of programming, i.e in any programming language, is essentially to control the reasoning system of the machine by providing it with conditions and variables. Today I […]

I suppose this is usually the part where I’m supposed to say this is my first post and blah, blah … Now that has been said and done, with great appreciation of the minds that did it before, I will get on to the real issue. For all the time I have been involved in […]